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Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday summoned the Afghan ambassador to express its “strong reservations” over the India-Afghanistan joint statement issued in New Delhi a day earlier.
Kabul: Taliban forces launched retaliatory attacks following Pakistani airstrikes in Helmand province, killing 15 Pakistani soldiers after strikes that also targeted Kabul, media reports said.
US President Donald Trump on Friday reacted to not winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, this year’s laureate, told him she accepted the award “in honour” of him.
Armed clashes erupted along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on Saturday after the Taliban accused Islamabad of carrying out airstrikes inside Afghan territory, escalating already fraught relations between the two neighbours, media reports said.
Renowned development economists and Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join the University of Zurich’s (UZH) Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics in July 2026.
Gaza: Palestinian militant group Hamas will skip the official signing of the Gaza peace deal in Egypt, a senior leader told AFP, citing disagreements with parts of Donald Trump’s plan — a move that throws the future of the long-anticipated accord into uncertainty.
Leland (Mississippi, US): At least four people were killed and 12 others injured in a mass shooting that took place shortly after a football game past midnight on Friday in the US state of Mississippi, the BBC reported.
The Dasu hydropower project workers demonstrated for the second consecutive day on Friday, demanding the release of their wages in line with the labour laws.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party has introduced a bill seeking to ban the wearing of burqas and niqabs in public spaces, citing concerns over “Islamic separatism,” reports said.
Afghan Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen on Saturday defended the exclusion of women journalists from the press conference addressed by Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in New Delhi, describing it as “unintentional” and not a policy decision.
At least six terrorists and seven police officers were killed after militants attacked a police training school in the Ratta Kulachi area of Dera Ismail Khan district, Pakistan, on Saturday, according to media reports.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose additional 100 percent tariffs on China, reigniting the trade war with the world's second-strongest economy.
A British appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a man who had been found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence for burning a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London, media reports said.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado dedicated her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to the people of Venezuela and to US President Donald Trump, praising what she called his “decisive support” for her country’s pro-democracy movement.
In a strong reaction following the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 to Venezuelan opposition leader and pro-democracy activist María Corina Machado, the White House alleged that it was “politics over peace”, saying US President Donald Trump will continue "ending wars".
Residents of Gwadar city recently staged a sit-in outside the Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) office to demonstrate against the worsening water crisis in the region.
The protest camp of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) has completed 5,962nd day outside the Quetta Press Club, with the organisation recording a new case of enforced disappearance involving a young man named Saqib Ahmed Buzdar.
Venezuela's influential opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of her nation and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Kabul/IBNS: Pakistan carried out an airstrike in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Thursday night coinciding with Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's maiden India visit, media reports said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday urged the Nobel Committee to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he “deserves it” for his role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire agreement.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday targeted former President Barack Obama, saying he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for doing nothing” and for “destroying the nation.”
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday targeted former President Barack Obama, saying he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for doing nothing” and for “destroying the nation.”
An octogenarian passenger choked and died while flying with Qatar Airways after the flight crew told him to ‘eat-around’ the meat in the regular non-vegetarian meal served.
Washington DC/IBNS: US President Donald Trump has announced Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of Gaza peace deal.
Harvard Economics Professor and former IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath has assessed the impact of the tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration, concluding that their overall effect has been negative.
Italy’s ruling Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) party on Wednesday introduced legislation seeking to ban the burqa and niqab in all public spaces, as part of a broader effort to combat what it described as “cultural separatism” linked to Islam.
Sacramento/IBNS: The Indian-American Hindu groups have thanked California Governor Gavin Newsom for signing a bill into a law marking Diwali as a state holiday, media reports said.
An 85-year-old American cardiologist died after allegedly choking on a meal served on a Qatar Airways flight, with his family claiming he was denied the vegetarian food he had pre-booked.
Houthi rebels have detained 10 more UN personnel in Yemen, bringing the total number to 54 since 2021.
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